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This book examines the art of the gold box in 18th and 19th century
Europe. Distinguished international scholars explore the
contributions made by individual workshops in major European
centres of production in the context of contemporary patronage and
the international market for such boxes. Consideration is given to
the design of gold boxes with reference to the V&A's important
collection of design drawings. Leading experts explore the ways in
which different techniques of gold box decoration -- portrait
miniatures, gems, enamels, mosaics and hard-stones -- were
developed. Contributors to the volume include experts from
Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden, London, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome,
and St Petersburg. Senior museum curators, auction house
specialists and independent scholars illustrate and discuss
examples from private and public collections in their cities and
elsewhere. The result is a unique record of the state of knowledge
on the European production of gold boxes and of the history of
collecting. This book will appeal to international collectors,
scholars, dealers, museum curators and museum visitors, and all
those interested in gold and silver fine art.
Expertly crafted from thousands of tiny and intricately arranged
pieces, micromosaics appear at first glance to be miniature
paintings. Closer inspection reveals the extraordinary skill of the
virtuoso makers, who were able to create exquisite images brimming
with drama and atmosphere. Focusing on 30 highlights from the
V&A's superlative Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection,
which includes some of the finest examples of micromosaics made,
this new book explores the technical aspects of micromosaic
construction, its roots in antiquity, their incredible popularity
in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, and their evolution
through the nineteenth century until the technique virtually
vanished in the early 1900s
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